Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes
The chapter of knowledge is a very short, but the chapter of accidents is a very long one.
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Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
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I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.
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There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
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I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.
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I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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My biggest fear has always been being 40 and hating my job. I love challenges. I'm not afraid to try anything.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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I am proud of where I came from, and I am proud of what I've been able to achieve through hard work and perseverance. And I guarantee you that anyone who tries to say otherwise hasn't walked a day in my shoes.
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I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.
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I think Islam has been hijacked by the idea that all Muslims are terrorists; that Islam is about hate, about war, about jihad - I think that hijacks the spirituality and beauty that exists within Islam. I believe in allowing Islam to be seen in context and in its entirety and being judged on what it really is, not what you think it is.
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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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The thing about comedy is it gives you a platform to expose your own shortcomings, so it becomes a public display of weirdness.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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I do not welcome advice from actors; they are here to act.
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I've had a lot of struggles and I would be in a lot of trouble, I think, if I wasn't a Christian.
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I actually had a week where I literally wrote four songs and all of them are on my album. But sometimes you'll go a week where you'll write songs and they never see the light of day. So that process takes a long time.
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Some people can sing, and they can sing sing, but Brandy can not only sing sing, but she has a voice and a tone that is unlike any other.
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I think my grandmother saw my potential first. When I was young, I told her, 'I think I should get a job.' She said, 'No, just keep boxing.'
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Wherever men do things, other men will arise who will explain to them how things should be done.
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You have to keep a feeling of goodness in your exteriors.
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I think there are really are some public schools, incredibly successful public schools, that are inculcating a real educational ethic in their students.
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The chapter of knowledge is a very short, but the chapter of accidents is a very long one.
